Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower (inc.com)
(A cock crows the moment Rodrigues tramples the fumie.) (firstthings.com)
So when in Matthew and the other gospels, Jesus says, «before the cock crow,» He could very well mean that before the time in the morning when the usual cockcrowing takes place, Peter will have made three denials. (redeeminggod.com)